Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia UK's members elect new trustees

2015-07-27 Thread Tito Dutta
Congratulations. On 28 July 2015 at 10:54, Hasive (Nurunnaby Chowdhury) nhas...@wikimedia.org.bd wrote: Congratulations new board.. -Hasive @nhasive -- Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive Wikimedia Bangladesh @nhasive | www.nhasive.com Sent from my Mobile Device On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:38

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does Foundation have 3rd party standing against Harald Bischoff?

2015-07-27 Thread Pine W
I had a roundtable discussion last night with some Wikimedians and other sympathizers, and was persuaded that the best way to handle this matter might indeed be for the community to delete the files in question and/or to block the uploader for alleged bad-faith behavior. This still leaves me

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does Foundation have 3rd party standing against Harald Bischoff?

2015-07-27 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Some people on the one hand like to complain on the interferences and interventions of the Foundation, and on the other hand want its involvement when it suits them. Pointing to the wealth of the Foundation and by that legitimizing any spending, is not really convincing. Ziko Am Montag, 27.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does Foundation have 3rd party standing against Harald Bischoff?

2015-07-27 Thread Robert Rohde
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: snip This still leaves me wondering if WMF Legal could be involved in the legal defense of the reusers if they acted in good faith in attempting to comply with the license terms as they understood them on Commons. snip

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia UK's members elect new trustees

2015-07-27 Thread Michael Maggs
I am very pleased to announce that at our annual general meeting on Saturday 25 July the members of Wikimedia UK elected three new trustees to the board from a very strong slate of candidates. Please join me in offering a very warm welcome to Doug Taylor, Nick Poole and Josie Fraser. Doug

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does Foundation have 3rd party standing against Harald Bischoff?

2015-07-27 Thread
As a reminder, if files are to be deleted from Wikimedia Commons, this only happens by discussion and administrative action on Wikimedia Commons. Roundtable discussion may be interesting, but this is not how decisions are made in our community. If you have notes or minutes of this closed meeting,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does Foundation have 3rd party standing against Harald Bischoff?

2015-07-27 Thread Pine W
Ziko, is that statement directed at me? If so, I would appreciate it if we could talk off list. In any case, I believe that I've attempted to do all the good that I can in this discussion at this time, so I'm signing off from this discussion for now. Pine

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia UK's members elect new trustees

2015-07-27 Thread Pine W
Congrats to the new board members and thank you for serving. Pine On Jul 27, 2015 7:30 AM, Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote: I am very pleased to announce that at our annual general meeting on Saturday 25 July the members of Wikimedia UK elected three new trustees to the board from a

[Wikimedia-l] Announcements - a note from one of your moderators.

2015-07-27 Thread Richard Ames
Please send announcements to the *WikimediaAnnounce-l *list; they will be automatically sent to to this list. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Wikimedia_Announce for guidelines as to what is appropriate. Discussions based on the announcements should be posted here. Thanks and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does Foundation have 3rd party standing against Harald Bischoff?

2015-07-27 Thread Steinsplitter Wiki
The wmf simply can't pursue legal actions against Harald Bischoff for the individuals who probably suffered damage. It is up to the community to investigate. For example banning him for copyright trolling [1]. A discussion has been started on commons [1]. Apart from that, i find it problematic

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia UK's members elect new trustees

2015-07-27 Thread Hasive (Nurunnaby Chowdhury)
Congratulations new board.. -Hasive @nhasive -- Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive Wikimedia Bangladesh @nhasive | www.nhasive.com Sent from my Mobile Device On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:38 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats to the new board members and thank you for serving. Pine On Jul

[Wikimedia-l] A book on open business models by Creative Commons

2015-07-27 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Dear all, Creative Commons has started an interesting project proposal at Kickstarter, Made with Creative Commons: A book on open business models https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/creativecommons/made-with-creative-commons-a-book-on-open-business. The book will be under a license compatible

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does Foundation have 3rd party standing against Harald Bischoff?

2015-07-27 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Hey Pine ( All) I think that the statement “there is no harm” in asking the Foundation/chapter staff (legal or otherwise) to do something is not always true. Every request has at least an “opportunity cost” (meaning there is something else that cannot be done). When there are situations when

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland, November 28th, 2015; Call for speakers

2015-07-27 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, Wikimedia Nederland has an annual conference, the WCN. As usual, it is scheduled for November, this time Saturday the 28th. We will not dramatically change the concept but are a little bit more conscious about these points: * The primary goal of the conference is for people to meet and